SomeFacts | February 2

On this day - February 2

506 — Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths, promulgates the ...

880 — Battle of Lüneburg Heath: King Louis III of France is defeated ...

962 — Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman ...

1032 — Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes king of Burgundy.

1141 — The Battle of Lincoln, at which Stephen, King of England is ...

1207 — Terra Mariana, eventually comprising present-day Latvia and ...

1347 — Byzantine Empress Anna convenes a synod to depose patriarch ...

1428 — An intense earthquake struck the Principality of Catalonia, ...

1438 — Nine leaders of the Transylvanian peasant revolt are executed ...

1461 — Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Mortimer's Cross results ...

1536 — Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1645 — Wars of the Three Kingdoms: In Scotland, the Battle of ...

1653 — New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is ...

1709 — Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a ...

1725 — J. S. Bach leads the first performance of his chorale cantata ...

1797 — The siege of Mantua ends after eight months when Count ...

1814 — The last of the River Thames frost fairs comes to an end.

1848 — Mexican–American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ...

1850 — Brigham Young declares war on Timpanogos in the Battle at Fort ...

1868 — Pro-Imperial forces capture Osaka Castle from the Tokugawa ...

1870 — The Seven Brothers (Seitsemän veljestä), a novel by Finnish ...

1876 — The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major ...

1881 — The sentences of the trial of the warlocks of Chiloé are ...

1887 — In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, the first Groundhog Day is ...

1899 — The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne ...

1901 — Funeral of Queen Victoria.

1909 — The Paris Film Congress opens, an attempt by European ...

1913 — Grand Central Terminal opens in New York City.

1920 — The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.

1922 — The uprising called the "pork mutiny" starts in the ...

1922 — Ulysses by James Joyce is published.

1925 — Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with ...

1934 — The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.

1935 — Leonarde Keeler administers polygraph tests to two murder ...

1942 — The Osvald Group is responsible for the first, active event of ...

1943 — World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end when ...

1954 — The Detroit Red Wings played in the first outdoor hockey game ...

1959 — Nine experienced ski hikers in the northern Ural Mountains in ...

1966 — Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the ...

1971 — The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and ...

1971 — Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.

1980 — Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt ...

1982 — Hama massacre: The government of Syria attacks the town of ...

1987 — After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts ...

1989 — Soviet–Afghan War: The last Soviet armoured column leaves ...

1990 — Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the ...

1998 — Cebu Pacific Flight 387 crashes into Mount Sumagaya in the ...

2000 — First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by ...

2004 — Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked ...

2005 — The Government of Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act. ...

2007 — Police officer Filippo Raciti is killed when a clash breaks ...

2012 — The ferry MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papua New ...

2021 — The Burmese military establishes the State Administration ...

2025 — Slovenian NBA player Luka Doncic is traded from the Dallas ...